“Saturday Night Live” in the first show of the year this weekend after more than a month’s holiday break wasted no time diving into January’s plentiful political dramas.
In the sketch of the “Blue Georgia” sketch, cast members and host John Krasinski portray the usually trustworthy red state as a Rachel Maddow-loving, avocado toast and vegan meatloaf serving and sun-heated patio neck of the country.
The “politically correct” transformation follows the real election of the state of two Democrats to the US Senate in a few games on January 5 that oust the current Republicans.
“Good to see a fellow Blue Stater. We’re just like you all,” a little Georgian waitress, played by Aidy Bryant, tells a tourist in New York, played by cast Pete Davidson, who runs the dining room. enter.
“Do you know where the men’s room is?” Davidson, asks after sitting down.
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“Yes, back in 2015,” Beck Bennett, a cast member, told Davidson as he played the Georgian man “Skeeter, he / she”, the owner of the city’s electric truck dealer who looks a bit like Colonel Sanders of KFC. “We do not have a men’s room, but the toilet for all genders is just under way.”
Artists set up a painting by Stacey Abrams in the King Historic District on Monday, January 18, 2021, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
After Davidson surprises that the dining room has a toilet for all genders, Bennett jokes that Davidson thinks all Georgians are ‘crazy Christian types’.
“Oh no, and even if you are, that’s fine,” Davidson replied. “I’m Jewish.”
“I hope you know what we’re doing to Jewish people here in Georgia,” Bennett warned like Skeeter ominously.
“We choose them!” he laughs, referring to Senator Jon Ossoff, the Democrat who defeated Republican Senator David Perdue in one of the races. Ossoff thus became the state’s first Jewish American senator. (On January 5, Senator Raphael Warnock, the state’s first black U.S. senator, also wins. He defeated Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler.)
Later in the sketch, Deputy Jimmy, played by Andrew Dismukes, bursts in at dinner and says how ‘honored’ he is that a group of Black Lives Matter activists ‘want to protest in our town!’
Then a Floridian with a MAGA hat, played by Alex Moffatt, enters the dining room and gets a stern reminder of Krasinski, the sheriff of the city.
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‘This is the land of Stacey Abrams’, warns the legislature, referring to the High Democrat Democrat who lost a race for governor in 2018 and then launched Fair Fight Action, a group that acknowledges be that they helped the Democrats win the two U.S. Senate races.
But at the end of the sketch, the thing that has not changed is the congregational refusal of the guests to wear masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
“Because we are free!” they shout.
The show also featured U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., During the cold open, sketching the GameStop shares and mocking the riots at the U.S. Capitol and accusing former President Trump.